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Story #1: Libs Seek to Limit Convenience Stores in South LA
RUSH: This is actually not a new story, but it's getting a new push here. We first reported this again months ago, just in the LA Times today: "Obesity concerns spur calls to limit new convenience stores in south Los Angeles. The proposed rules, an outgrowth of last year's city restriction on new fast food restaurants, are prompted by links found by researchers between snack foods and obesity in poor communities." So they're going to limit the shopping choices of poor people in LA not because of any link to obesity, but because it's what liberal Democrats do: limit and control your freedom.
Story #2: Larry Summers: We "Stemmed" Unemployment
 RUSH: There's a group of economists out there saying that economic recovery is underway, which is just laughable. Larry Summers, who is one of Obama's economic advisors, says that they "stemmed" unemployment, that it would have been far worse had they not done their stimulus bill, and that they've increased growth, which would have been worse, thanks to the stimulus. Did you see retail sales are down again?? Luxury retail sales, that matters. All the unemployment news rising all over the country, we're approaching 10%, and we're supposed to ignore all that and listen to what they Obama administration mouthpieces have to say about this? It's surreal. It really is surreal.
Story #3: The CBO Fraudulently Scored the Baucus Bill
RUSH: The Baucus bill, health care bill -- the Senate Finance Committee vote on it is tomorrow, and you need to be reminded how the CBO totally, fraudulently scored the bill. They said it's revenue neutral, that it will not add to the deficit -- because at the time they did it, there was no bill! It was a legislative draft with phony numbers installed to get that particular CBO score.
Story #4: A Man's Questions to God on Global Warming
RUSH: I would like to play a role, ladies and gentlemen, it obviously is a role because this doesn't describe me, but I wish to play a role now as a confused and troubled man asking his God some things. "Please, God, I am a confused and troubled man. I need your guidance. My government says manmade global warming is destroying the planet you have so generously provided. They say the breath of all God's creatures is poisoning and heating the atmosphere you created. They say if I do not give up my car and give in to higher taxes on the energy that keeps me alive, the world's oceans will boil and that we will all die. Please help me, God. Should I believe them? Is man heating and destroying the planet you created? Or do you control earth's temperatures? Please, God, just show me a sign."
And after this confused and troubled man's plea to his God was complete, guess what happened? Sunspots larger than the earth itself suddenly disappeared, the sun cooled, global temperatures plunged, the highest recorded year temperature-wise, 1998. It's now 2009. Summer has vanished in many places. The snows of winter came earlier than ever before. Children shivered and millions of families around the world needed cheap, plenty, readily available energy for warmth. So a question for the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maha Rushie. Was all this a sign to that confused and troubled man? Did God give us the answer to this troubled man's question?
Story #5: BBC: What Happened to Global Warming?
RUSH: Let's go to the BBC, Friday, October 9th: "'What Happened to Global Warming?' -- This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. So what on Earth is going on?" This is from the BBC. "Climate change skeptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming. They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this? During the last few decades of the 20th Century, our planet did warm quickly.
"Skeptics argue that the warming we observed was down to the energy from the Sun increasing. After all 98% of the Earth's warmth comes from the Sun. But research conducted two years ago, and published by the Royal Society, seemed to rule out solar influences. The scientists' main approach was simple: to look at solar output and cosmic ray intensity over the last 30-40 years, and compare those trends with the graph for global average surface temperature.
And the results were clear. 'Warming in the last 20 to 40 years can't have been caused by solar activity,' said Dr Piers Forster from Leeds University, a leading contributor to this year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But one solar scientist Piers Corbyn from Weatheraction, a company specialising in long range weather forecasting, disagrees. He claims that solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures.
"According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated. The oceans, he says, have a cycle in which they warm and cool cyclically. The most important one is the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO)," about which we've been told by our own climate specialist, Dr. Roy Spencer. "For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was in a positive cycle, that means warmer than average. And observations have revealed that global temperatures were warm too. But in the last few years it has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down. These cycles in the past have lasted for nearly 30 years. So could global temperatures follow?
"So what can we expect in the next few years? Both sides have very different forecasts. … One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over." Of course, the BBC in this story felt obligated to pretend that the warmers have an answer for all this but they really don't. In fact, even though they have figured in the sun and the oceans as factors all along, they are disapproved by this indisputable fact for the last 11 years: We have not observed any increase in global temps and our climate models did not forecast it, even though manmade carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible, has continued to rise. An answer from God? And there are some discoveries that have taken place that are shoving the global warming tax hikes in politicians' faces. Just when the smug control freaks were ready to fleece all of us, God shut down the sun, opened up fossil fuel reserves like we've never seen. Oil, gas, coal, shale, discoveries are so many and so vast, they are hard too keep up with.
Story #6: The New York Times Discovers Thing Called "Shale"
RUSH: New York Times, Saturday: "A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel. Italian and Norwegian oil engineers and geologists have arrived in Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to learn how to extract gas from layers of a black rock called shale." Now, you all have heard about shale from us on this program for years. The New York Times is just getting around to it: "New Way to Tap Gas May Expand Global Supplies," and the supplies are far beyond anybody's imagination, dreams, what have you.
Story #7: Energy Crisis Postponed, New Gas Saves the World
RUSH: From the UK Telegraph: "'Energy Crisis is Postponed as New Gas Rescues the World.' -- Engineers have performed their magic once again. The world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared." This is by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
"America is not going to bleed its wealth importing fuel. Russia's grip on Europe's gas will weaken. Improvident Britain may avoid paralyzing blackouts by mid-decade after all. The World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires last week was one of those events that shatter assumptions. Advances in technology for extracting gas from shale and methane beds have quickened dramatically, altering the global balance of energy faster than almost anybody expected." And so when our fictional character says, "Please, God, I'm confused and troubled, would you just show me a sign?" Global temperatures since 1998, the recent discovery of natural gas, and the ability to extract it cheaply -- maybe we have been given a sign from God.
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